Rebooted my phone last night after making a few changes in the CM settings in EB and the lockscreen no longer accepted the PIN I had set. Anyone know how to get around this without doing a full wipe and reinstall? I had some pics and vids of that I took just recently that I want to be sure to save so I would like to avoid a full wipe and reinstall, unless someone can tell me that EB saves pics and vids to my external SD card by default.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
Eaglesblood saves pics in the /sdcard/_ExternalSD/DCIM so it should be on your external sd. Just to make sure, put your sd card in your computer and see. If you dont have an adapter, put the sd in another phone and check with a file manager like astro.
Ever_Ready said:
Rebooted my phone last night after making a few changes in the CM settings in EB and the lockscreen no longer accepted the PIN I had set. Anyone know how to get around this without doing a full wipe and reinstall? I had some pics and vids of that I took just recently that I want to be sure to save so I would like to avoid a full wipe and reinstall, unless someone can tell me that EB saves pics and vids to my external SD card by default.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
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Get ur password wrong like 10 times then it will ask u to sign into ur google account to override the password
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You can also mount sd in recovery and grab what you need.
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Get ur password wrong like 10 times then it will ask u to sign into ur google account to override the password
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This is the best way! Just keep putting in the wrong code it will ask you to log in using your gmail acct info and then allow you to set a new code!
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okay, so i've found myself in a bit of a pickle. Recently I've been running the CM7 nightly's, but today I tried out the RoyalGinger rom and I believe it either corrupted my SD card or it's blocking my SD card from being used/read.
Tried several times to reformat it but each time it said 'checking SD card', but the weird thing is I have an active wireless connection, but I'm not getting texts. I can download from market, get on Facebook, etc, but my texts won't come in until I reboot the phone. A few times I booted it up and it wouldn't allow me to even see my homescreen because it'd pop up with EVERY app force closing (including google services, framework, etc), I was able to get back to my homescreen by clearing by Dalvik Cache luckily, however I'm still unable to do most anything. I went in to wipe/restore but it says cannot find SD card, directory invalid, cannot mount, etc.
Is there a way to reformat my SD card through terminal? If so could I get the code procedure for it? or anyone have any ideas other than picking up a new micro (which isn't a big deal but I'm strapped on money til Friday) but i'd still prefer to know that it's JUST my SD card and not my phone memory. Anyone? Anyone? Beuler? Beuler? Thanks in advance. I'm really sorry if I posted this in the wrong section, but c'mon, everyone gets one.
Ok so do u have a stock backup rom? Ide say go to rom manager and go to recovery and whipe etc.. Then install that stock back on it.....And can ur sd card even read at all? Just get any.file manager and check your sd.
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I think I have a backup rom of CM6, but not an actual android stock rom. It won't allow me because it says 'must have an SD card inserted' then it says must have clockwork mod recovery installed, which I do, the current version. Now that it says that I'm afraid to boot my phone into recovery, and I can't really tell if my SD card will read. I was able to use my file manager and the entire SD folder is blank.
ten minutes later: still boots into recovery, none of my backups are available on it. I was thinking about downloading a rom from the phone and trying that way, but I don't know if it'd save to the (apparently unreadable) SD card.
Ok try this...... Find out what recovery you use 3.0.0.5 or the normal 2.5.1.4 for froyo then download a rom thats the same recovery as the one u have on it right now...... If its the same as your cyanogenmod 6 then install that from the recovery manually!!!
if its not then download a rom that is and make sure you use a file manager to see if the download sticks in your sdcard. And if it doesnt stick then......your problem sir might be a corrupted sdcard, or a phone that cant read your sd.
Hope its not either or, so give it a shot.....
And ur supposed to have a stock backup as soon as you root and switch roms man Lol makes life easier
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And ur supposed to have a stock backup as soon as you root and switch roms man Lol makes life easier
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Lol agreed that's saved me a couple times now
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It sounds like he doesn't have access to his sdcard. It doesn't matter how many backups you make if that's the case...
If you happen to have a sdcard reader or a microsd usb adapter you could format it in windows, copy the files you need, and start again. Also did you try connecting to your pc and seeing if it's readable that way? You can format the card if your pc recognizes it. If you have adb set up you can push the recovery image to the phone without a sdcard. But once again without a working sdcard you won't be able to flash a new rom.
Hey guys I'm pretty sure it's just my SD card. I tried saving an image, just to test it and it says 'an SD card is required to download images.bin', so I'm HOPING it's just my SD Card, however my notifications are working properly so I can at least deal with it til friday, if it IS my SD card reader in the phone, well... I have a plan for that, however due to already technically breaking that I shouldn't go into it. Thanks to you guys for taking the time to post and if you know anything else that might help me I'd gladly accept it.
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It sounds like he doesn't have access to his sdcard. It doesn't matter how many backups you make if that's the case...
If you happen to have a sdcard reader or a microsd usb adapter you could format it in windows, copy the files you need, and start again. Also did you try connecting to your pc and seeing if it's readable that way? You can format the card if your pc recognizes it. If you have adb set up you can push the recovery image to the phone without a sdcard. But once again without a working sdcard you won't be able to flash a new rom.
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Hi, I have a reader on my laptop but not the adapter, so I can't tell and yes, you were right, I can't see any of my backups (which I have my stock, then cm6 and cm7) so I either need to find an adapter or get a new SD card. luckily I pulled all of my camera images off my phone last night when I put the new rom .zip on the phone sd, so I'm not really worried about 'losing' anything as long as I get my phone working back in proper condition.
Well that happened to me before as well.. All i did was replace sd cards lets the phone do its thing flash a different rom like CM6 or CM7 and then once replaced i got the adapter for my old sd card reformatted through windows and put it right back in and it worked.. So try that?
Ill have to. Thanks a lot guys I do appreciate any comments and suggestions and ill be picking up a new sd later thia week to fix it but can amyone recommend a good brand sd to pick up? the apparently failed one was a samsung 8gb
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Hp is very good, u probably can find one with 8 gb. At best buy.. But if u want a 32 gb then thats online all day
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I usually use sandisk so yeah try that?
Something similar happened to me. Your SD card likely has a bad or corrupted file. I used Win7 to copy over what I could to a folder in my PC. The Win7 automatically refused to copy over the corrupted files while carrying over everything else. In XP, your file transfer stops and you have to try again to ensure you have everything that's not corrupted transferred over.
After copying, I just went ahead and formatted the SD to FAT32, transferred everything back, installed on my phone, and voila.
Go into recovery and partition the card. You'll lose everything on it but it should be useable after that
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Hello,
Just wondering if anyone can give me some info about how the cm7 storage works in comparison with stock. I haven't ran and gotten an SD card yet for the phone and have just been relying on the internal. I was confused when I saw that I can't use anything because of the lack of one and how the gallery wont let me the see the pics that are now under mmt/emmc, which is where it looks like it pushed all my data to. I'm running eaglebloods 2.3.5 cm7 gb rom. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Pictures which are stored to internal memory are viewable in the gallery. I'm not sure about other media files, but I'm pretty sure it should work normally.
The pictures were placed under additional storage as far as cm7 is concerned. They are from my last normal gb installs. Whenever I use gallery it says SD card unmounted or not present.
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Yea well that's weird I'm using cm too and I can see everything in gallery too, u said ur using eb? Try cm mite be different kinda like how fauxs and cm were different, couldn't see internal in fauxs and his was based off cm, also did u try quickpic in the market? Highly recommended for ur situation u will be able to see all ur pics
Weird thing is is I can see internal sd card under storage and can navigate to via mnt /emmc but gallery wont pull from it. Won't let me use the camera until I install an external SD either. Says the same thing "SD card umounted or not present"
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Yea well that's weird I'm using cm too and I can see everything in gallery too, u said ur using eb? Try cm mite be different kinda like how fauxs and cm were different, couldn't see internal in fauxs and his was based off cm, also did u try quickpic in the market? Highly recommended for ur situation u will be able to see all ur pics
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I also tried plain cm7 from cyanogen and it was the same way.... I have a feeling its supposed to work that way just I don't understand it so well
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try this thread and see if it helps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144553 its pretty much a little guide to change the mount point to internal instead of external... I think they have external primarily cause most have SD cards that are class 6, which write a whole lot faster then internal memory.
so my phone deleted everything off of my sdcard and you know how your pics and everything is litterly like your world or life. how can i restore all my files? or am i totally f'ed?
i was also wondering is there something for your phone like how your computer can be restored to a date before. is there a way or program to do this to your phone and micro SD memory card??
please help me i really dont wanna have to redo everything on my sdcard again):
If the card was wiped its gone and I don't think the phone makes restore points like a computer does. Best you can do is back up your rom periodically but that wont bring back the SD card data.
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so my phone deleted everything off of my sdcard and you know how your pics and everything is litterly like your world or life. how can i restore all my files? or am i totally f'ed?
i was also wondering is there something for your phone like how your computer can be restored to a date before. is there a way or program to do this to your phone and micro SD memory card??
please help me i really dont wanna have to redo everything on my sdcard again):
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I'm not sure how your phone would've done that; that usually requires a deliberate action. Unless you somehow converted the filesystem on the sdcard, it should be a VFAT filesystem. Basically the filesystem from Windows 95, 98, ME, etc. I can't think of an easy way to recover that. There might be a tool out there to do it.
Hopefully someone else has a better answer.
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If the card was wiped its gone and I don't think the phone makes restore points like a computer does. Best you can do is back up your rom periodically but that wont bring back the SD card data.
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My phone did it when i was in recovery it did the partition SD card
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My phone did it when i was in recovery it did the partition SD card
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Ouch. I'm afraid the data's probably lost, man. If it partitioned the card it probably wrote a new partition table. There might be some file recovery utilities you can run from Windows to try and recover the files but I don't know how successful they would be.
I thought I read somewhere there was an app to retrieve old deleted data from a sd card somewhere in these sgs4g forums. a guy did almost the same thing and said he got most of it back, try searching some key words
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I thought I read somewhere there was an app to retrieve old deleted data from a sd card somewhere in these sgs4g forums. a guy did almost the same thing and said he got most of it back, try searching some key words
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Given that it got re-partitioned, though....
Unless you do a Full Format, or fill the card with new files, most of the time when stuff deletes, the index information is removed or something like that, and it's just invisible, until it's overwritten. So if you can find a recovery program it should be able to find the data. Last time I looked there weren't many free ones, but it's worth a google search.
I agree with goddi2010. I also remember reading that one of our members had a similar problem and was able to recover lost data. He even mentions what he did/used to recover the data.
Somewhere in our forum the help you need is there. Good luck searching and when you find the info please let us know how it worked out for you...
Sorry I can't be more specific.
I just used the program Recuva ( it's free ). Install it on your computer and plug your phone in or put the card in a reader then run Recuva and select the quick scan and it will bring up everything that has been deleted and it will tell you if it can recover it or not. It has work for me multiple times.
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I have a total of 10 pictures on my One S. If someone sends me a picture through text and I try to save it, it says "please insert an SD card," which obviously is not possible with the One S. I've tried everything, resetting cache, checking storage (there's plenty), deleting pictures, sending one to myself, etc etc. If i take a picture it saves just fine, or if I screen shot, but I can't save anything sent to me, and this just started happening because I could save them before. I'm definitely avoiding factory resetting my phone as of now, so any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Which SMS app are you working with? the stock one?
I'm having the same problem, stock message app.
Save your stuff and try to reformat your sd card through your phones storage settings and see if it helps.
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Save your stuff and try to reformat your sd card through your phones storage settings and see if it helps.
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That did not work but thanks for trying.
and with other roms too? i got that only one with stock.
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and with other roms too? i got that only one with stock.
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Don't know about other roms as i'm still stock rom.
Think i might try Go SMS and see if that works.
Ok well i've tried for hours now.. using Astro.. ES explorer and even the native my files application and i cant seem to move pictures from my phones storage to my EXT SD card... and something else i noticed.. is when i adjust my cameras settings to save to my external SD card it gives me an error as well but i can still read files off of it.. so whats wrong?
i'm running Clean rom 5.0
it worked before on Stock and Liquid smooth RC7 and RC8
no one? come on...
All I can say is try a clean install see if that fixes it, probably not that helpful but worth a shot.
You may want to backup everything to a computer in case this sd card fails on you. You should reformat the sd card (to Fat32) and see if this resolves your issue.
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All I can say is try a clean install see if that fixes it, probably not that helpful but worth a shot.
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Already tried doing a clean install.. Still doesn't work and I've backed up almost everything onto my computer.. Gonna format it later and I'll let you guys know if it worked
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